Argus Observer (Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon)
Monday, October 04, 1971
FRUITLAND - Services for Mrs. Nellie Bly Hanson, 79, Fruitland, who died Friday at a Payette Nursing home will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the New Plymouth Shaffer-Jenson Memory Chapel by the Rev. D.J. Snyder, Gospel Lighthouse Church, Payette. Interment with rites by Priscilla Rebekah Lodge #97, will be at Park View.
She was born February 28, 1892 at Boise. She moved with her parents to the Council area where they lived on a homestead at Hornet Creek. She was married to Nelson Hanson at Council on March 3, 1910. They also homestead at Hornet Creek. In 1920 they moved to a farm west of New Plymouth and lived there until retiring in 1947 when they moved to Fruitland. Mr. Hanson died in 1966. She was a member of the Congregational Church at New Plymouth, Priscilla Rebakah Lodge No 97, New Plymouth, the Past Noble Grand Club and the Happy Hour Club of New Plymouth.
She is survived by a son, Albert Hanson, Fruitland; two daughters, Mrs. Albert (Nancy) Garner, New Plymouth and Mrs. Ella Schima, Boise; a brother Fay Ferrell, Klamath Falls, Ore.; five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
She is also preceded in death by a daughter, a Grandson, five sisters and four brothers.
